The Word Carrier (Santee, Nebraska), 1888-07 - 1888-08

              The Word Carrier.
VOLUME   XVII.
HELPING   THE   RIGHT,   EXPOSING   THE   WRONG.
N'UMHKKS    7-S.
SANTEE AGENCY, NEBBASKA.
JULY-AUGUST, 1888.
FIFTY CENTS PEE- YEAB.
OUR PLATFORM.
For Indians we want American Education ! We want American Homes!
We want American Rights! Tlie result of which is American Citizenship!
And Hie Gospel is the Power of God for
tlieir Salvation.
All Avill be interested in the notice
of the famous Yankton Chief, Strike-
the-Bee, written by Mr.Williamson.
We regret that it was only fairly begun when the stage came along and
cut it off short. We hope to have
the rest of the story about this really remarkable man next month.
Hampton Institute, Va., issues a
pamphlet of eighty pages, commemorating the close of "Ten
Years' Work for Indians." It
gives a great deal of interesting information concerning the condition
and work of that magnificent institution, with special reference to its
Indian work and the history of its
returned Indian students.
The cause of Indian Missions
has experienced a sad loss in the
death of Bev. J. H. Handford, Episcopal Missionary at Cheyenne Biver
Agency. His death was caused by
his being throAvn into the knives of
his moAving machine and so wounded that he bled to death. He was
an Englishman avIio had already
served a number of years in missionary Work in South Africa, Avhich
field he left only on account of his
■wife's health. He Avas still a com-
paratively young man.
Santee Normal Training School
issues a notice in this month's Iapi
Oaye to the effect that the use of
Tobacco is hereafter entirely forbidden in the school, and that any
avIio do not agree to abstain from
its use Avill be excluded.
Heretofore its use has been forbidden in all buildings belonging to
the school, and its use has been emphatically discouraged elseAvhere.
Noav the sentiment of our Christian
people among the Dakotas on this
subject has grown so that tins new
step is made possible. We believe
that every one of the native ministers connected with our Indian
churches (Congregational and Presbyterian) has given up the use of
the Aveed.	
We wish to make all the readers
of The Word Cashier at home in
our printing office, and so introduce
the neAv superintendent, Mr. Chas.
B. Lawson, Avho takes the place of
Mr. E. A. Fry. Mr. Lawson has had
a thorough training in his business
as a printer, in a number of the best
printing offices in the city of Chicago. He has also had, while living
.there, good training for missionary
work in years of faithful labor in
Bethany Congregational Church.
In this connection, we wish to
thank Mr. Fry for his most efficient
help for seven months in establishing the office. Our printing department and The Word Carrier will
long be indebted to him. May the
success attend him that his ability
and energy deserve. Mr. Fry resumes the publication of The Niobrara Pioneer.
In the editorial columns of The
Red Man the folloAving appears:
"A penitent Indian girl confesses that
she has been doing something which she
enjoyed very much, but fears that it
will not do her any good, she has been
reading a novel! To the Indian, in his
native understanding, fiction is falsehood."
The Red Man, evidently, has not
visited the Aboriginal retreats as
much as his name Avould indicate,
or he Avould have discovered that
the "Indian in his native understanding" does little else on Avinter
nights than listen to or narrate grotesque fiction. Neither does he term
it falsehood (Avoitons'ni), but fiction
(kakanpina).
In the article on Physical Education mention is made of the
military drill. Any friend Avishing
to aid and encourage the "Cadets"
and their instructor can do so by
sending them a flag, Avith belt and
standard-socket, and shoulder-
straps for the captain and tAvo
lieutenants.
AA'IIAT I WOULD LIKE TO BE.
What   One   Santee   Pupil   Thinks—His
Laudable   Ambition.
I am going to tell you Avhat I
should like to be Avhen I go back to
my Western home. It is hard to
tell exactly Avhat I am going to do,
but the only way I can do is just
get ready to do what my hands find
to do. I cannot expect to do a big
Avork, but I can help the people only hi the little things; but the little
things are not little or easy to do.
Sometimes some industrious people
find that it is hard thing to do the
little tilings as. the big things; so,
often the people get discouraged
about the little things.
A man Avho has knoAvledge and
influence, and [is a] faithful, earnest and industrious man, then
he can do a glorious work; then he
has to think Avhat he should like to
be; but of course I cannot do that
Avay. I should say I must get ready
and prepare my hands to do Avhat
they find to do.
I should like to be a teacher.
First, I Avish I could be smart
enough to know all my lessons perfect, and when time comes I should
like to be a teacher and help my
people all I can; they need a teacher very much. Sometimes I felt
very sorrow for them when I see
the children playing around doing
nothing. They [are] losing their
precious time; they ought to be in
school studying hard instead of
playing and fooling around; and
often times I said to the children
"Why don't you ask your father or
your mother to let you go to school
and learn something and be more
happier than to be sad and sorry
Avhen you cannot hear Avhat the
white people speak to you ?"
If we are lazy to do a thing, even
a little thing, Ave'11 lose our prizes
and besides be [so] lazy that Ave
cannot help ourselves. I wish I
learn hoAV to study my lesson Avhile
I have chance to learn, so that I
could be a teacher and help my
poor people out Avest.
I hope God will help me and this
story Avill come true.
Allen M. West.
JULY AXD AUGUST AT  SANTEE.
Many of the papers and periodicals have, of late, contained articles upon the much discussed
question,Vacation, Iioav most profitably spent—vacation, and the Avhil-
ing aAvay of the summer hours.
The visitor says, "I find this a
busy Avorld at Santee, and the time
and attention of every one fully
occupied, although this is vacation." Since June and the close of
school, the hay field has been the
chief scene of activity. The music
of the moAving machine has taken
the place of the school-room hum.
The rnoAver is folloAved by the rake,
and the pitchforks, flourished by
many hands, have made light Avork
of haying, until James BroAvn's
meadoAv lands have been Avell divested of this year's groAvth of grass,
and the uncut blue joint on the
field's boundary line stands like a
Avail around the stubble.
"All aboard for the hay field," is
the call, early in the morning; for
we visitors are on deck to-day. Pay
your money and take your choice,
for the Avagons are of all kinds and
descriptions; ox, mule, and horse
teams are in line awaiting the advance signal. Old friends are ahvays
sure, and Ave mount the hayrack
with Pete and Sam, the old mission
horses ahead, and our nut-broAvn
driver in charge. A bucket of ice,
the lunch basket, a shade umbrella,
and Ave are equipped. Yet the student brmgs the botanical box and
Gray's Manual, Avhile another carries a novel, just for recreation,
should the morning prove too Avarin
to analyze more than fifty of the
genus Helianthus.
We enjoy all this. We can ignore
the fact that the mercury stands at
100° in the shade and is rising; and
this day is enjoyable because we
call it recreation. We are something like the child Avho Avhen asked
to pick the peas for dinner, finds it
"aAvful hard Avork," but three hours
spent in digging Avells in the sand
hill is fun because it is play.
And now five long stacks are
completed; haying is OA'er for this
season; tbe work is finished and
ah may rest ? Not a bit of it. The
hay may be all in, and the pitchforks hung in bright array on the
barn wall, but there is work elseAvhere.
The site for the new building has
been decided upon, and Whitney
Hall is to be erected this summer.
Everything must have a beginning
and to begin at the bottom, the cellar must first be unearthed. Yet
all are not needed there, and while
we watch the building of the foundation for the neAv house, Ave look over
to see that Mr. Stone and his assistants have made the field and garden bring forth good fold this year.
And is this not an opportune season for the "Bird's Nest" to don a
fresh exterior, and does not her suit
of combination green become her
well?
Others of us, who found the past
school year an incentive to further
study, although Ave have not joined
a Chautauquan Band, obey the summons of the beU each morning and
devote ah hour or tAvo to the schoolroom.
Santee is lively,—not gay. Of
course Ave enjoy our OAvn society; we
make the most of our little circle.
But AA'e take possession of vacation hours, and we may be able to
give the visitor some suggestions in
regard to a profitably spent summer. Our course may be varied,
but surely as applicable to life as
the regime folloAved at many summer institutes.
However, we stop our work for
meals. Santee breakfasts and
dines; and noAV the supper bell
calls, so fareAvell for this time.
c. I), r.
REVISED   ORDER   NUMBER
THREE.
Department or the Interior,
Office of Indian Affairs,
AVasiiington, June 27, 188S.
Rev. M. E. Strieby, (Secretary American
Missionary Association, No. 5G Keade
street, Ncav York City:
Sir:—Tbe following rules in regard
to teaching the vernacular in Indian
schools are issued for your guidance in
the schools under your charge.
1st. In Government schools no textbooks and no oral instruction in the A'er-
nacular Avill be allowed, but all textbooks and instruction must be in the
English language. No departure from
this rule Avill be alloAved except when
absolutely necessary to rudimentary instruction in English. But it is permitted
to read from the Bible in the vernacular
at the daily opening of school when English is not understood by the pupils.
2d. In schools where Indian children are placed under contract, or to
which the Government contributes in
any manner, the same rule shall be observed in all secular instruction. Religious instruction in the vernacular may
be alloAved in such schools, both by textbook and orally, provided not more than
one-fourth of the time is devoted to sueh
instruction.
3d. In purely mission schools, that
is, in schools toward whose support the
< idver -lit contributes nothing, religious and other instruction may be conducted in the manner approved by those
who maintain the si 1 Is ; provided that
one-half of the school hours shall he employed in instruction in English.
4th. Only native Indian teachers will
be permitted to teach otherwise in any
Indian vernacular; and these native
teachers Avill only be allowed so to teach
in schools not supported in whole or in
part by the Government, and where
there are no Government or contract
schools Avhere English is taught. These
natiA-e teachers are allowed to teach in
the vernacular only Avith a view of reaching those Indians who cannot have the
advantages of instruction in English.
5th. A theological class of Indian young
men, supported wholly by mission funds,
may be trained in the vernacular at any
missionary Schoel supported in whole or
in part by missionary societies, the object
being to prepare them for the ministry,
Avhose subsequent work shall be confined
to preaching, unless they shall be employed as teachers in remote settlements
Avhere English schools are inaccessible.
Gth. These rules are not intended to
prev.ent the possession or use by any Indian of tho Bible published in the vernacular ; hut such possession or use shall
not interfere with the teaching of the
English language to the extent and in
the manner hereinbefore directed.
These rules are to take the place of all
others previously issued on this subject.
Very respectfully,    A. B. Upshaw,
Acting Commissioner.
One of our young men who expects to take up missionary Avox-k
this fall thus expresses himself: "I
don't suppose that I know very
much; but one thing I knoAV, and
that is the Dakota Bible. I can
read that to the people and talk
about it in my own language, and
they can understand me, and that
is what they need; they need the
Bible."